On Tuesday, I caught up with James Carville and Mary Matalin on the phone as they were racing to the tiny Montrose Regional Airport in Colorado—one of the only ways to get in and out of Telluride by air. The pair were leaving the Telluride Film Festival, where Carville was hyping a buzzy new film about, well, himself. Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, is filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary about the life and times of the Ragin’ Cajun, the rights to which were just acquired by CNN.
Earlier this summer, Tyrnauer was putting the finishing touches on his film when Joe Biden’s campaign collapsed amid the debate wreckage in Atlanta. The 79-year-old Carville, in the sunset of his career, was about to play a starring role in the push to get Biden out of the race, and Tyrnauer realized his movie wasn’t finished.
